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A 2020 domestic violence case came to light as pretrial hearings began recently. Roiland's lawyer says he is innocent.

Hundreds of corporate employees are set to lose their jobs as McDonald's closes its U.S. offices this week. Journalist and author Adam Chandler offers his perspective on the causes of the layoffs.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to UNICEF's Ezatullah Majeed about a fire in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh that displaced thousands of people who had fled a military crackdown in Myanmar.

Benson defeated Kristina Karamo, an election denier who made a name for herself claiming without evidence she saw fraud in the 2020 election.

Police believe the victims range in age between 15 and 21 years old. The shooting took place steps from the city's Atlantic Station shopping district, which has struggled with crime.

And spending by groups supporting Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock has more than doubled contributions from groups backing Republican challenger Herschel Walker.

Club Q owner Nic Grzecka told NPR he and his staff are working on a yet-to-be-determined temporary solution. The Nov. 20 shooting killed 5 people and wounded another 17. A suspect has been arrested.

Administrators at Heyer Elementary School in Waukesha stopped a class from performing a Miley Cyrus-Dolly Parton duet promoting LGBTQ acceptance because the song "could be perceived as controversial."

James Comey told attendees at a cyber conference in Boston that he does not intend to leave before the end of his 10-year term. Comey has faced critics on both sides of the political spectrum.

Reed dramatically emerged from the locker room minutes before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals to spark the Knicks to their first championship, an enduring example of playing through pain.

The nation's second largest for-profit prison operator is under scrutiny as it diversifies.

The Federal Reserve's projects that 2 million people will be out of work before the end of the year.

The Florida Department of Emergency Management apologized for an alert that was sent to Floridians' cell phones shortly before 5 a.m.

The story of a man so in love that he's willing to burn down Rome — and the emperor who is able to forgive him.

After six days of silence, Page Gardner, president of Women's Voices Women Vote, defended the group and its voter-registration activities in an interview with NPR. Gardner said that Women's Voices registered 26,000 North Carolinians in time to vote in the primary and that African-Americans make up 57 percent of all those registered by the group.

Lolita, an orca whale held captive for more than a half-century, has died at the Miami Seaquarium as caregivers prepared to move her from the theme park.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 15 percent of Americans do shift work. A request on NPR's Facebook page for people to share their stories of working on the night shift brought more than 2,000 responses.

Comedian Sarah Silverman is known for delivering closely observed social commentary in a disarming, politically incorrect style. She tells stories about her childhood and her career in a new memoir, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee.

Recovery efforts are underway for areas across central and north Florida following Hurricane Idalia's destruction.

The arrow was found at a site on Mount Lauvhøe that was previously covered in ice. The new discovery adds new "time depth" to the research site.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a death warrant for Michael Duane Zack, 54, an inmate convicted in the 1996 murder of a woman he met in an Escambia County bar.

Critics said the new school standards are the latest in a series of attacks on Black history by Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration.

The administrator of the worst-affected area, the Kalehe territory of South Kivu province, said more bodies were recovered Sunday, including many found floating in Lake Kivu.

Essential benefit requirements apply mainly to individual and small group plans. The federal requirements also affect benefits provided to people newly eligible for Medicaid coverage. Now, for instance, we know that insurers won't be allowed to can't charge consumers a copay for a screening colonoscopy, even if a polyp is removed.

He has been with the Tampa Police Department for nearly 27 years, serving in several roles.